Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s wedding portrait photographer, Alexi Lubomirski has revealed the secrets from his picture session with the royal family on the Sussexes’ big day back in 2018
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How do you photograph a royal wedding? With smarties and a word of warning from Queen Elizabeth II, according to Alexi Lubomirski, the celebrity snapper who captured Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s nuptials in 2018. The photographer has revealed some behind-the-scenes information from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s big day on his ‘ReSHOOT’ TikTok series, which sees Lubomirski look back on some of his most well-known shots, which include photos of Beyoncé, Demi Moore, and Charlize Theron.
A prince himself, Lubomirski belongs to the Polish princely House of Lubomirski, and is of course best known for his work with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Despite his own royal lineage, the photographer initially thought he was the victim of a practical joke when he received an invitation from Kensington Palace to capture the future Duke and Duchess for their engagement photos at Frogmore Cottage.
So happy with the portraits were Meghan and Harry that they employed Lubomirski to photograph the royal family after the wedding day at Windsor Castle. Attending the ceremony as a guest with his wife, Giada Lubomirski, Alexi joined the Firm in the Green Drawing Room after the vows and set about preparing to take their picture.
Photographing the family would be a pressurising job at the best of times, but Lubomirski revealed that Prince Harry had cautioned him before the event that Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip found lengthy photo calls to be tiresome. The photographer recalled how Harry had told him: ‘They’re very old, they’ve taken so many pictures in their life. If you don’t get it quickly, they’re just going to move out.’